African Experts Discuss Need for Better Regulation of Medicine

In most African countries, pharmaceutal drugs are poorly regulated or not regulated at all, posing huge risks for those who depend on them to stay healthy.   But for the first time, the topic has gotten the attention of African officials, who holding a scientific conference on the topic in South Africa.    Access to safe and effective medicine can be touch and go in Africa, where the market abounds with drugs that are fake or expired. That can have disastrous...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mardi 3 décembre 2013